Writers

P.W. BRIDGMAN writes short fiction and poetry from Vancouver, Canada. He has published short fiction in Litro UK, Litro NY, Grain, The Antigonish Review, The New Orphic Review, The Moth Magazine, London Grip, A New Ulster, Easy Street,Section 8 Magazine, The Mulberry Fork Review, Aerodrome and other literary periodicals and e-zines. One of his stories was a finalist for the 1994 Canadian National Magazine Award for Fiction; another placed first in the Pottersfield Portfolio short fiction competition in 1998. More recently Mr. Bridgman had a piece of his work short-listed for the 2010 U.K. Bridport Prize (flash fiction category) and two of his short stories placed in the Leonard Koval International Fiction Competition (in 2012 and 2014) and were published by the Irish publisher, Labello Press, in its Gem Street anthologies for those years. His Standing at an Angle to My Age — a selection of short fiction — was published by Libros Libertad in 2013. You may learn more about P.W. Bridgman by visiting his website at www.pwbridgman.ca.

MARTIN CATHCART FRODEN is originally from Sweden and has lived in Canada, Israel, Argentina, almost Finland and London. He has worked as a drummer, avocado picker, magazine editor and prison teacher. He won the 2015 Dundee International Book Prize with Devil Take the Hindmost (Freight Books), and his story ‘The Underwater Cathedral’ won the 2013 BBC Opening Lines competition. He is the 2017 National Trust Scotland Poet in Residence. He has just embarked on a doctorate in Creative Writing / Criminology / Architecture in Glasgow where he lives with his wife and three young children. lumawords.co.uk@mcathcartfroden

SRISHTI CHAUDHARY is a writer and a student of Creative Writing at the University of Edinburgh. She studied English Literature and her favourite subject to write about is humans. She is currently working on her first novel.

ROB DORAN has been writing, teaching and directing theatre in Queensland, Australia for over 20 years. His recent productions include: Spirit of the Lore (ACPA / QPAC / Brisbane Festival 2013), Battle Scarred Phallic Wounds (2014), Orion’s Way (2014), Agender (2014), Assumptions (2015), Mortality (2016), Polity (2016), and Hunting Phia (2016). Rob trained with master teacher Lyn Kidd and developed the Diploma of Film, Television and Theatre Acting, accredited under the Australian Qualifications Framework. He taught at The Actors Workshop Australia for 20 years and has managed other vocational colleges across the creative industries. He has been Head of Vocational Education and Training for QANTM College and SAE Australia, Deputy Director of the Australian Dance Performance Institute, and Training and Artistic Director of the Aboriginal Centre for the Performing Arts. Rob’s areas of teaching expertise include acting technique, improvisation, script writing, acting for film and television, and acting for theatre.

MAX EEVI was born in North London.

From a young age he turned to artistic practices as a conduit for lost time.

A background in Fine Art has taught him to consider wider, more abstract notions of writing.

His influences lie with such writers as Samuel Beckett, Donald Barthelme and Joseph Conrad.

From his influences he has learned to leave things on the floor.

He now lives in South London, near the river.

His work has since been published in Lighthouse Press, Wraparound South, Tales and Palooka Magazine.

OMER TEVFIK ERTEN has been taking photographs since 2011, and has prepared documentary series on gender, identity, urban transformation and the trans community. He is an activist for trans rights and one of the founding members of Pembe Sanat (Pink Art), a platform aiming to bring visibility to the trans and sex worker community through the arts. He works and lives in Istanbul. www.omertevfikerten.com

TENDAI HUCHU’S first novel The Hairdresser of Harare was released in 2010 to critical acclaim, and has been translated into several languages. Between projects, he translates fiction between the Shona and English languages. His new novel is The Maestro, The Magistrate & The Mathematician. Find him @TendaiHuchu or on www.tendaihuchu.com.

CHIN LI was born in Hong Kong but has lived in the UK for over 30 years. Over the past few years, he has been involved in three experimental writing publications called gnommero, which are available from Aye Aye Books at the CCA in Glasgow.

ALASDAIR MACQUARRIE studied English and Philosophy at Manchester Metropolitan University. After graduating he went on to study at the University’s writing school. He now lives and works in Edinburgh where he is working on a collection of Edinburgh based short stories. Twitter: @innsegall

GERARD McKEEVER is a writer and academic based in Thornhill, Dumfries & Galloway. He is currently publishing a series of short stories, while writing a novel set on the Solway coast (see gerardmckeever.co.uk). Gerard is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Glasgow, where he completed a PhD in English Literature in 2014. He publishes a variety of research on the subject of Scottish Romanticism. Twitter:@gmckeeverwriter

CALLUM MCSORLEY is a writer based in Aberdeenshire. He graduated from the University of Strathclyde in 2013 with a degree in English, Journalism & Creative Writing, and in 2014 was selected for the Hermann Kesten Writing Scholarship in Nuremberg. His short stories have appeared in several journals and anthologies, including Gutter, and he writes book reviews for British Fantasy Award-nominated (2018) sci-fi magazine Shoreline of Infinity.

HELMI BEN MERIEM is a Tunisian fiction writer and a researcher of Somali literature. His short stories have appeared in Feminist Spaces, Blue Minaret, Scarlet Leaf Review, Theories of Her: an Experimental Anthology, and Thema among others. He has recently finished writing an epistolary novel entitled Good Nights Letters.

DARRYL PEERS studies English Literature at the University of Aberdeen. He also works as a trainer in the technology industry. He is an active writer of short fiction and creative non-fiction and is also working on his first novel. He won the Non-Fiction Commendation in the 2017 Literary Lights Prize, run by the Grassic Gibbon Centre, for his essay ‘Mither Tap’. It is available to read here. Darryl grew up and was schooled in rural Aberdeenshire but moved to central Aberdeen at the age of 19, and later to Manchester in England. He returned to Aberdeen in 2016 for his studies.

COLIN CAMPBELL ROBINSON is an Australian artist living on the Isle of Bute. Colin’s work appears in a wide range of journals, most recently in Shearsman, BlazeVox, A Bad Penny Review, Creative Literary Studio, Molly Bloom and Empty Mirror. His book, Blue Solitude – a self portrait in six scenarios, has recently been published by Knives Forks and Spoons Press. For further information about Colin visit www.move-in-pictures.com.

LEELA SOMA is an Indo-Scot writer living in Glasgow. She was commissioned to write a short story for Glasgow Women’s Library’s 21 Revolutions anthology and for Butterfly Rammy by Common Space. She has read at the Edinburgh Fringe. One of her short stories was published in The Scotsman newspaper.

REBECCA SMITH was brought up in the middle of nowhere in Cumbria and now lives in Central Scotland. She studied English and Media at Stirling University and then produced live radio for 10 years, almost purely living off adrenaline. She currently works in Radio Drama in Glasgow. She was mentored by Kirsty Logan after she was selected as part of the Womentoring Project. She has stories published in various magazines (Freak Circus, Tales from the Forest, Northwords Now, [Untitled], Dear Damsels). She has one son, a silver-grey cat and a penchant for biscuits and can be found on Twitter @beckorio.

ELISSA SOAVE is a Scottish writer. Publications and websites where her work has appeared include Structo, Literary Orphans, Gutter, Freak Circus, Burning House Press, The Guardian, New Writing Scotland (volume 8), and the textbook Working Words. She has had a story shortlisted for performance by Liars League London (2016) and another selected for performance at Glasgow CCA’s Stage to Page event (also 2016). She reached the semi-final of the Harpies Fechters and Quines All Woman Poetry Slam, organised by the Glasgow Women’s Library in June 2016. She is currently working on her first novel. You can find Elissa atelissasoave.wordpress.comor follow her on Twitter@elissa_soave.

JUDY UPTON works as a playwright and screenwriter, having won the George Devine, Verity Bargate and Croydon International Awards for playwriting. Her plays have been produced by the Royal Court, National Theatre, Birmingham Rep, Durham Gala and BBC Radio 4 among others. She has had an original TV drama shown on BBC1 two feature films produced. Judy has also had a number of short stories published. Her website is at www.judyupton.co.uk

KIRSTI WISHART gained a Ph.d in Scottish Literature at the University of St. Andrews many years ago and has been recovering in Edinburgh ever since. She was awarded a Hawthornden Fellowship in 2013 and this year is one of seven finalists in theScottish Arts Club Short Story Awards. Her stories can be found in The Seven Wonders of Scotland anthology, New Writing Scotland, 404 Ink, The Evergreen and a quiet grove in Edinburgh’s Botanic Gardens courtesy of theEchoes of the City project. Say hello @KirstiW

DONNA RUTHERFORD is originally from Scotland, but has lived in England, Canada and New Zealand over the past 15 years. As a mother of four and a migrant far from home, her writing is inspired by the bonds of family and connection to a homeland. Her first two novels were written under the pen name Ruthie Morgan. She recently signed with Westwood Creative Literary Agency who are seeking a publisher for her most recent novel, From Where We Came.